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▪ Kogan2011: from protSem *ḥinṭ‑at‑ ‘wheat’.
▪ Whether the meaning was ‘wheat’ or rather ‘(any kind of) cereal’ in Sem in general, is not clear. Orel&Stolbova reconstruct Sem *ḥinṭ‑ ‘barley, grain’, from an AfrAs *ḥinṭ‑ ‘cereal’.
▪ Erman1892 relates the word to an Eg ḫnd ‘sort of cereal (?)’. So also Cohen1969, adding Som ḥaḍuḍ ‘céréales’, ḥayḍ ‘orge’ to the picture. The latter is taken up by Dolgopolsky2012, who concludes that we can go back in time even farther and reconstruct a Nostr *Xäǹ˅ṭ˅ ‘grain, kernel’.
▪ For Klein1987, the Sem word »possibly derive[s] from base ḤNṬ ‘to ripen, become ripe’«, see ḤNṬ_3 in entry ↗ḤNṬ.

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▪ Cf. also the obsol. n.prof. ^†ḥannāṭ ‘dealer in wheat’, ^†ḥāniṭ ‘wheat-seller’.

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▪ Orel&Stolbova1994#1272: Akk uṭṭuṭu, Ug ḥṭṭ, Hbr ḥiṭṭā, Aram ḥinṭ-ət-, Ar ḥinṭ-at-, Soq ḥinṭeh. Outside Sem: (HEC) hiṭe (in 2 langs), hanṭe (1 lang.)
▪ DRS 9 (2010)#ḤNṬ-1 Akk uṭṭat-, uṭṭet ‘orge’, Ug ḥṭt, Hbr ḥuṭṭa, Aram ḥinṭᵊtā, Palm ḥṭyn (pl.), Syr ḥeṭṭᵊtā, Ar ḥinṭaẗ, Soq ḥínṭeh, Śḥr ḥeyṭ (?), Gz ḥeṭṭat ‘froment’. – [?] -3 Hbr *ḥānaṭ ‘mûrir’, Ar ḥanaṭa ‘être mûr’, ḥāniṭ ‘rouge; arrivé à maturité’.
▪ Kogan 2011: Akk uṭṭetu ‘(some kind of cereal)’, Ug ḥṭt, Hbr ḥiṭṭā, Syr ḥeṭtā, Ar ḥinṭaẗ, Soq ḥinṭeh ‘wheat’, Mhr ḥəṭāt ‘grain’, Jib ḥíṭ ‘food, beans, staple food, any cereal’, ḥíṭét ‘an ear of rice’, Gz ḥəṭṭat, ḫəṭṭat ‘grain, seed’.
▪ Erman1892 compares Eg ḫnd, allegedly an old and rare word for ‘(sort of cereal)’. (This word is not attested in TLAe, which has, with unsecured meaning, ḫt.wj ‘corn, cereal (?)’ and ḫn.t.t ‘people who do s.th. with corn (?)’.) – Cohen1969, too, has this obscure ḫnd (#122, remarking that the ḫ in the Eg word would be unusual); he also adds Som ḥaḍuḍ ‘céréales’, ḥayḍ ‘orge’ as Cush cognates.

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▪ Kogan 2011: from Sem *ḥinṭ-at-, which denotes ‘wheat’ throughout CSem and in Soq (ḥinṭeh). Its reflexes in other modSAr langs and in Gz are more general in meaning. Still uncertain is the exact significance of Akk uṭṭetu : ‘wheat’?, ‘barley’?, ‘cereal in general’?
▪ Orel&Stolbova1994#1272 reconstruct Sem *ḥinṭ- ‘barley, grain’, HEC *ḥinṭ- / *ḥanṭ- ‘grass’, both from AfrAs *ḥinṭ- ‘cereal’. (Cf. also AfrAs *ḫund- ‘cereal’, with no Ar descendant). Dolgopolsky2012 even sees a Nostr dimension and reconstructs *Xäǹ˅ṭ˅ ‘grain, kernel’.
▪ Klein1987 thinks that the value ‘wheat / corn, cereal’ could be secondary since the Sem words »possibly derive from base ḤNṬ ‘to ripen, become ripe’) (cf. ḤNṬ_3 in disambiguation entry ↗ḤNṬ). But also the reverse may be true.
▪ For discussion of possible relations to yet other values of the root cf. ↗ḤNṬ.

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► ḥinṭī, adj., 1 wheat-coloured, golden brown; tanned; 2 ^†eater of much ḥinṭaẗ, in order that he may grow fat; (hence) inflated, swollen (Lane ii 1865): nsb-adj. (nominalized in v2)

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